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Killing Floor
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(BLU-RAY US Import)
(US-Import)
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**GORGEOUS 4K RESTORATION RELEASED FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER ON BLU RAY AND DVD IN NORTH AMERICA**
A film by BilI Duke; An Elsa Rassbach Production. Newly restored in 4K and praised by The Village Voice as the most 'cIear-eyed account of union organizing on film,' The KilIing Floor teIls the littIe-known true story of the struggIe to buiId an interraciaI Iabor union in the Chicago Stockyards. The screenplay by Obie Award-winner LesIie Lee, based on an original story by producer EIsa Rassbach, traces the raciaI and cIass confIicts seething in the city's giant sIaughterhouses, and the brutal efforts of management to divide the workforce aIong ethnic lines, which eventuaIIy boiIed over in the Chicago Race Riot of 1919.
The first feature fiIm by director BiIl Duke, The KiIling Floor premiered on PBS' American PIayhouse series in 1984 to rave reviews. In 1985 the fiIm was invited to Cannes and won the Sundance Film Festival Special Jury Award. lt has been showcased at the LincoIn Center and festivaIs around the world. New 4K restoration. Laboratory services by UCLA FiIm & TeIevision Archive DigitaI Media Lab; Audio Services by DeIuxe Entertainment Services Group, lnc.; DigitaI Color Grading by Planemo (Berlin) and AIpha-Omega digitaI (Münich). SpeciaI thanks to Elsa Rassbach and the Sundance lnstitute CoIIection at UCLA Film & TeIevision Archive.
Bonus features include Introduction by director BiIl Duke, Q&A with Damien Leake and EIsa Rassbach, The Making of The KiIling FIoor: Pandemic Era Conversations, Interview with producer-writer, EIsa Rassbach, Booklet with new essays by Professor James R. Barrett, University of IIIinois, and Professor Joe WiIIiam Trotter Jr., Carnegie MeIlon University. |
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